Within the general battle against the coronavirus, Ángel Correa is also fighting another battle., very hard. The health of his mother, Marcela Martínez, who suffers from cancer. The Argentine has revealed it by hanging on his social networks a photo with her, shaved hair, in tribute to his recovery from illness, and a text that begins like this: “There is no truce for your enemy on the battlefield, they can touch your body, but your soul is untouchable.”
He knows it well, about the battlefields. Life was always presented full of mines, but of all managed to get stronger. The loss of a parent as a child, at 10 years old. “Yes, at that age my father died and the income that I had from playing soccer was the only thing that came to my house to be able to eat my brothers, my mother or myself.. I had a representative who gave me a salary and I gave it to my mother, who was the one who handled it, “confessed the footballer in an interview in The country in September 2017. But there is more. Much more. More like the loss of a brother three years ago or the enter an operating room with an open chest due to a benign tumor in the heart just at the beginning of the summer in which he had signed for Atlético (2014). At the medical examination he was discovered.
“Those problems and obstacles that I had were making me harder and that's what keeps my head strong to do better and continue helping my family, “Correa argued in that same interview. He had the courage to accompany his mother during this battle, shaving her hair, as when in 2017 the entire Athletic squad snatched him away in tribute to Yeray.”They will not steal who you are, your spirit is stronger. You have won this war. You are our warrior. We love you, ma “, ended his text on Instagram Correa. He will fight at his side.